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New York Times
20 hours ago
- Climate
- New York Times
Did the Texas Floods Have to Be This Deadly?
Hosted by Natalie Kitroeff Featuring Christopher Flavelle Produced by Asthaa ChaturvediAlex SternDiana NguyenCaitlin O'Keefe and Mary Wilson Edited by Mike BenoistPatricia Willens and Liz O. Baylen Original music by Dan Powell and Elisheba Ittoop Engineered by Alyssa Moxley A little over a week after the devastating flooding in Central Texas, more than 130 people are confirmed dead — and the search for the missing continues. In the aftermath of the disaster, there have been mounting questions about how local officials handled the critical hours before and during the storm. This episode of 'The Daily' looks at the missed opportunities that may have contributed to the growing tragedy — and whether anything more could have been done to save lives. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Christopher Flavelle, a Times reporter covering how President Trump is transforming the government. Kerr County, where most of the deaths occurred, failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects. Years before the floods, records show, the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved the removal from flood zones of many buildings at Camp Mystic, where floodwaters killed more than two dozen people. Eight-year-olds at camp, families in their R.V.s: These were some of the lives lost to the Texas floods. There are a lot of ways to listen to 'The Daily.' Here's how. We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode's publication. You can find them at the top of the page. Fact-checking by Susan Lee. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Michael Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, Nina Feldman, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Sophia Lanman, Shannon M. Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez, Brendan Klinkenberg, Chris Haxel, Maria Byrne, Anna Foley and Caitlin O'Keefe. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson, Nina Lassam, Nick Pitman and Kathleen O'Brien.
New York Times
6 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
What to Expect From Trump's New Trade Drama
Hosted by Natalie Kitroeff Featuring Ana SwansonMaggie Haberman and Ben Casselman Produced by Diana NguyenSydney Harper and Olivia Natt Edited by Marc Georges With Paige Cowett Original music by Dan Powell and Elisheba Ittoop Engineered by Alyssa Moxley After months of delaying his most extreme tariffs, President Trump is now threatening to revive the most aggressive version of his global trade war. America's trading partners, investors and consumers are bracing for impact. The Times journalists Natalie Kitroeff, Ana Swanson, Maggie Haberman and Ben Casselman sit down to discuss what we can expect and what Mr. Trump's endgame might be. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Ben Casselman, the chief economics correspondent for The New York Times. Mr. Trump revived his trade war, threatening steep tariffs on allies unless they reach deals with the U.S. What is a trade deal? He takes an expansive view. The threatened tariffs aim to settle scores with countries, no matter their size. There are a lot of ways to listen to 'The Daily.' Here's how. We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode's publication. You can find them at the top of the page. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Michael Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, Nina Feldman, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Sophia Lanman, Shannon M. Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez, Brendan Klinkenberg, Chris Haxel, Maria Byrne, Anna Foley and Caitlin O'Keefe. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson, Nina Lassam, Nick Pitman and Kathleen O'Brien.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CBS News Legend Lowell Bergman Explains Why Paramount's Trump Settlement Is ‘A Lot Worse' Than His Big Tobacco Case
Longtime '60 Minutes' producer Lowell Bergman said Paramount's $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump is 'a lot worse' than the similar situation CBS News found itself in over proposed coverage of the tobacco industry in the 1990s. 'We're in a really grim moment, when absurd lawsuits and huge amounts of money come together to damage the public interest,' Bergman told The New York Times' 'The Daily' podcast on Monday. More from TheWrap CBS News Legend Lowell Bergman Explains Why Paramount's Trump Settlement Is 'A Lot Worse' Than His Big Tobacco Case 'Inside Edition' Taps ABC News Correspondent Eva Pilgrim as New Anchor DOJ, FBI Insist There's No Jeffrey Epstein List, 5 Months After AG Pam Bondi Said It Was Sitting On Her Desk | Video Latest Trump-Musk Battle Spurs $70 Billion Stock Decline for Tesla Bergman said he believed Trump's lawsuit against Paramount was 'even weaker' than the lawsuit the president filed against ABC and George Stephanopoulos, which was settled for $15 million late last year. Stephanopoulos had said on air several times that Trump was found 'liable for rape' in the civil case E. Jean Carroll brought against him. In fact, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse, which carries a different definition in New York, where the case took place. 'A reasonable jury could interpret Stephanopoulos' statements as defamatory,' Magistrate Judge Reid wrote last year. 'Stephanopoulos stated 10 times that a jury — or juries — had found plaintiff liable for rape.' The judge's comments, coupled with the fear a Florida jury would award Trump more than the $15 million he ultimately received, pushed Disney towards settling. On Monday, Bergman said ABC 'capitulated' to Trump — and Paramount followed suit last week with its own settlement. 'Every legal expert thought it was sort of nonsense, right? It's nonsense,' Bergman said about Trump's lawsuit against Paramount. 'It's done to intimidate, and so the result will be that you have litigation, and it becomes all-consuming when you're in the middle of it.' Trump initially sued Paramount for $20 billion over how '60 Minutes' edited an interview with Kamala Harris last year, arguing it was 'false advertising' and election tampering. The president's lawyers later argued the segment caused him 'mental anguish.' A settlement was reached last week, with the payment including 'plaintiffs' fees and costs' as well as a donation that will be allocated to a 'future presidential library.' Paramount also said that 'in the future, '60 Minutes' will release transcripts of interviews with eligible U.S. presidential candidates after such interviews have aired, subject to redactions as required for legal or national security concerns.' Bergman added he believed the settlement is a bigger smear on CBS' legacy than when the network's lawyers blocked a '60 Minutes' interview with Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower from Brown & Williamson tobacco company. The interview ultimately ran months later, after the Wall Street Journal reported on Wigand's allegations against the tobacco industry — all of which eventually served as the drama for Michael Mann's 1999 political thriller 'The Insider,' which featured Al Pacino playing Bergman. 'It's not like a case involving tobacco and the pressure that was coming down was easy to see where it would be coming from,' Bergman said. 'This is the president of the United States, and this is without precedent in the history of this country.' Bergman added journalists have to be a 'little bit depressed' about what the future holds for the profession. 'The fact is, that anyone working at '60 Minutes' from now on has to worry about what is going to be allowed on the air,' Bergman said. Listen to Bergman's full interview on 'The Daily' here. The post CBS News Legend Lowell Bergman Explains Why Paramount's Trump Settlement Is 'A Lot Worse' Than His Big Tobacco Case appeared first on TheWrap.
Atlantic
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
A Writer Who Slows Down the Speed-Reader
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Ashley Parker, a staff writer who has covered the decline and fall of Elon Musk, interviewed President Donald Trump for The Atlantic 's June cover story, and written about miscarriage and motherhood. Ashley is a fan of anything by Ann Patchett, recommends watching The Studio for a comedy break, and considers Wonder Boys the rare movie that surpasses the book. The Culture Survey: Ashley Parker An author I will read anything by: Ann Patchett. I came to her late, and the first book I read was Bel Canto, but then I was hooked. I went back and read everything else she'd written, and I now read everything she writes, as soon as it comes out. My dirty secret is that I'm basically a modern-fiction speed-reader and very little I read stays with me, but Patchett has a way of creating entire worlds and characters that linger. (I actually met her at the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival a few years ago, when we were both panelists, though it was far more exciting for me than it was for her, alas.) For literary mysteries, I am also obsessed with Tana French, and because I have to wait for each new book to come out, I have since discovered the Maeve Kerrigan series, by Jane Casey. The television show I'm most enjoying right now: My husband and I just binged The Survivors in a single night—me because I found it addictive, and him because he claims he wanted to 'get it over with.' We've since moved on to The Studio with Seth Rogen, which is consistently funny and well done. My favorite art movie: Wonder Boys. And this is not a question you asked, but I'm going to offer up anyhow that this is the rare—perhaps only!—instance where the movie is better than the book. (No offense, Michael Chabon.) It's got an amazing cast (Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Frances McDormand, plus Katie Holmes in red cowboy boots) and an age-appropriate, middle-age romance. Enough said. An actor I would watch in anything: Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg—their essences are somehow endearingly familiar to me. Specifically: They both remind me of my dorky high-school guy friends, and I've always loved the movies they end up choosing. I recently watched Eisenberg's A Real Pain, which did not disappoint. And though I feel like I'm familiar even with Cera's more obscure work (see: Paper Heart), my all-time-favorite movie of his is probably Juno. Best work of nonfiction I've recently read: Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliott. On principle, I read almost zero nonfiction unless I have to for work, but I loved her series of stories for The New York Times on Dasani Coates, a young girl who comes of age in Brooklyn's homeless shelters. The book is similarly cinematic, and absolutely gripping. Also, for work—because I am interviewing the authors (separately) at Politics and Prose this month—I just read Empire of the Elite, by Michael Grynbaum, and 2024, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf. They are very different books: Grynbaum's is an inside look at the golden years of Condé Nast and how it shaped our culture, and 2024 is an inside account of Donald Trump's, Joe Biden's, and Kamala Harris's 2024 campaigns. But they're both engaging, fantastic reads, and I'm glad I had an excuse to get early copies and violate my no-nonfiction rule. And on the topic of campaign books: I am wildly biased, but I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention my husband's 2020-Trump-campaign book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, which I read a bajillion times—chapter by chapter, often out of order—as he was writing it. It remains the best Trump-campaign book I've read, in part because, in addition to having a slew of scoops, it explains the Trump phenomenon and what motivates the MAGA base, including Trump's now-famous 'Front Row Joe' uber-loyalists. A musical artist who means a lot to me: Billy Joel. Long story, but the first cassette tape I ever discovered was my dad's copy of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits—Volume I & Volume II, and for a year or two in elementary school, I absolutely refused to listen to anything else—or to allow my family to listen to anything else. The last museum or gallery show that I loved: Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Mirrors,' when it came to the Hirshhorn a few years ago. I like that she's basically a hipster nonagenarian, and that her work is very accessible and fun, because I'm a philistine. Visiting the exhibit was also one of the first dates my now-husband and I went on, and on our honeymoon in Japan, we ended up seeing more of her work, so her show has a nice full-circle quality for me. Something I recently revisited: I keep meaning to reread The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, which my first boss, Maureen Dowd, introduced to me one day in an airport bookstore and correctly predicted that I'd love. A favorite story I've read in The Atlantic: I will read anything by Caitlin Flanagan; in fact, she is the reason I finally subscribed to The Atlantic several years ago. But the specific article that still stays with me, now more than a decade later, is Scott Stossel's ' Surviving Anxiety.' The writing is so vivid and honest, and as someone who has dealt with various phobias of my own, I found it imminently relatable. Something delightful introduced to me by a kid in my life: Kuk Sool Won, a Korean form of martial arts that my 6-year-old is currently obsessed with. We discovered it randomly, when I signed her up for a Kuk Sool after-care club, and she instantly fell in love. She is now a yellow-striped belt and takes it so seriously. Nothing brings me more joy than watching her bark out Korean words I don't understand and practice her various 'forms,' her mouth set in a line of grim determination. A poem, or line of poetry, that I return to: These words, from Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, aren't technically poetry, but they might as well be. Now that I'm a mom and in my 40s, I find them regularly drifting through my thoughts, unbidden: 'Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.' The Week Ahead Superman, a superhero movie starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan (in theaters Friday) Too Much, a comedy series co-created by Lena Dunham about a workaholic who moves to London to find love (premieres Thursday on Netflix) Vera, or Faith, a novel by Gary Shteyngart about the eccentric family of a precocious 10-year-old (out Tuesday) Essay The Christian Rocker at the Center of MAGA By Ali Breland After wildfires erupted in Los Angeles County earlier this year, a team from the Department of Housing and Urban Development descended on the wreckage. Led by HUD Secretary Scott Turner, the entourage walked through the rubble in Altadena, reassuring victims that the Trump administration had their back. At Turner's request, a Christian-nationalist musician named Sean Feucht tagged along. 'I can't overemphasize how amazing this opportunity is,' Feucht had posted on Instagram the day before. 'I'm bringing my guitar. We're going to worship. We're going to pray.' More in Culture Catch Up on The Atlantic Congressional Republicans didn't have to do this. The whole country is starting to look like California. The birth-rate crisis isn't as bad as you've heard—it's worse. Photo Album Take a look at these photos of people across Europe doing whatever they can to keep cool during days of oppressive heat. Play our daily crossword.
New York Times
26-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Breaking Down the Massive Cuts to Science Funding
Hosted by Natalie Kitroeff Featuring Emily Anthes Produced by Alex SternEric KrupkeAlexandra Leigh Young and Carlos Prieto Edited by M.J. Davis LinPaige Cowett and Maria Byrne Original music by Elisheba Ittoop Engineered by Alyssa Moxley In the months since taking office, President Trump has made billions of dollars in cuts to scientific research, essentially saying science has become too woke. Emily Anthes, a science reporter at The New York Times, explains what is being cut and how much the world of science is about to change. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Emily Anthes, a science reporter at The New York Times. Nearly 2,500 National Institutes of Health grants have been ended or delayed. A N.I.H. memo paused the cancellations of medical research grants. There are a lot of ways to listen to 'The Daily.' Here's how. We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode's publication. You can find them at the top of the page. Special thanks to Irena Hwang and Benjamin Mueller. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Michael Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion Lozano, Rob Szypko, Elisheba Ittoop, Mooj Zadie, Patricia Willens, Rowan Niemisto, Jody Becker, Rikki Novetsky, Nina Feldman, Carlos Prieto, Ben Calhoun, Susan Lee, Lexie Diao, Mary Wilson, Alex Stern, Sophia Lanman, Shannon M. Lin, Diane Wong, Devon Taylor, Alyssa Moxley, Olivia Natt, Daniel Ramirez, Brendan Klinkenberg, Chris Haxel, Maria Byrne, Anna Foley and Caitlin O'Keefe. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Paula Szuchman, Lisa Tobin, Larissa Anderson, Julia Simon, Mahima Chablani, Elizabeth Davis-Moorer, Jeffrey Miranda, Maddy Masiello, Isabella Anderson, Nina Lassam, Nick Pitman and Kathleen O'Brien.
